...1raq," which he called an "axis or evil," were seeking weapons of mass destruction, warned: "1 will noi wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand...threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." Full text in The Ncw York Times, January 20, 2002. tors with weapons of mass destruction can deliver...

...is necessary to ensure our nation's security — 1 will not wait on events while dangers gather. 1 will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer....threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons' (New York Times, 30 January 2002, p. A22). For further background to the doctrine, see the excellent...

..."Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror." He warned that he would "not stand by as peril draws closer and closer. The...regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons."1" Those nations making up what the Bush administration considers the "axis of evil" was expanded...

...2002, possibly the best one ever given, certainly the best one I had ever heard, the president said, "The United States of America will not permit the...threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." And then he pinpointed the exact trouble areas in the world, by naming Iraq, Iran, and North Korea,...

...publicly added Iran and North Korea to what he called "the Axis of Evil". He said about all three that "The United States of America will not permit the...threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons". President Bush had already questioned South Korea's new policy of reconciliation toward North Korea...

...Korea, Iran and Iraq—for special mention, calling them an "axis of evil." Then came the ultimatum: "The United States of America will not permit the...threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." Other possible war aims—to defeat Al Qaeda, to spread democracy—came and went in Administration...

...2002, President Bush included Iraq in an "axis of evil" along with North Korea and Iran, and stated, "The United States of America will not permit the...threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." Why would President Bush put Iraq into this "evil axis" category? Iraq Fact Excerpts of Open Letter...

...compromise without you, yourself, being implicated in the very evil you ostensibly oppose. You cannot say, "America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the worlds most destructive weapons" (as cited in Umansky, 2002) without backing up the threat — which...

...Meanwhile, absent such effective defenses, the president pledged in his 2002 State of the Union address that "the United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes [the "axis of evil" states— Iraq, Iran, and North Korea] and their terrorist allies to threaten us...

...against our territory. And as the president stated in his State of the Union address, we must not allow the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most dangerous weapons. In response to this new strategic environment, the president called for a new approach...